Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@debian.org> writes: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 02:30:58PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> I always use this as one argument when it comes to "Why should be care >> about Debian? Our users use something else", that packaging includes a >> careful review and documentation of the copyright. > Usually only for the initial upload, though.
That is already a great plus. The majority of astronomy related packages (my field) fall into two categories: Either they are quite old legacy packages; they are large but don't change much anymore -- eso-midas is an example here. Or, they are relatively young, with an enthusiastic open-minded community in the back, like astropy. For the first category, the upload is mainly a one-short (with later bugfixes), having the initial upload clean is already the deal. For the young projects, the discussion before the first upload usually helps triggering the community to *care* about copyright and to document it. So keeping it up-to-date is often not such a big problem. The main advantage in any case is not the the resulting d/copyright itself, but the discussion with upstream, which should lead to some software ethics in our field. Having legal software is a value by itself, and Debian just helps here to make the community sensitive for this. YMMV Cheers Ole
